Measuring and Modeling Variation in the Risk-Return Trade-off

Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Vol 1

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 617-690

  Lettau, Martin ^a   Ludvigson, Sydney C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-50897-3.50014-6     Document Type: Chapter

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